[Zope3-Users] Re: Re: Blobs in Z3 anyone?

[Chris McDonough]

On Apr 20, 2006, at 3:33 AM, Martin Aspeli wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:35:47 +0100, Chris McDonough  
> <chrism at plope.com> wrote:
>
>> The zodb code is on the blob-merge-branch of ZODB in Zope's  
>> subversion repository.  I'm not sure when it's going to land in an  
>> actual ZODB release.  I'm fighting a bunch  of fires at the moment  
>> and it's on the backburner as a result. :-(
>
> Is there a roadmap, to-do list or similar? Do you have an  
> estimation of how complete it is at this stage?

There is a reasonably-up-to-date TODO.txt on the branch in src/ZODB/ 
Blobs .  It's complete enough that we decided to make a "technical  
preview" release at some point, but I dropped the ball (necessarily,  
sorry).

>
> Storage of large files is something that Plone and the other CMSs  
> solve (to various degrees of success) at the wrong layer of the  
> stack (although Railroad/Tramline/Hurry are really interesting).  
> Development at the ZODB level scares me, but I'm sure there are  
> people in various communities interested in getting this solved  
> once and for all.

Sure.  The best way to help is for people to try it out.  There is a  
Zope 2 branch in SVN named http://svn.zope.org/Zope/branches/blob- 
integration-test that I believe has its externals set right to  
include the "blob-aware" version of ZODB.  You should be able to  
check it out and just run it.  There are examples of blob usage in  
the ZODB/Blobs/tests/test_basic.txt .

- C